Dutch police bust Nigerian fake wedding scam



THE HAGUE  (AFP) – Dutch police have busted a wedding scam involving Dutch citizens being paid to go to Britain to marry illegal Nigerian immigrants so they can obtain residency there, prosecutors said Friday.

The gendarmerie, responsible for border security, “detained 16 women and seven men this week on the suspicion that they travelled to Britain to enter into fake marriages,” it said in a statement.

“They are almost all of Dutch Antillean origin and were flown to Britain to get married”, mainly to Nigerian men and women, it added.

Once married, the Nigerians would get legal residency in Britain and access to state welfare. In return, the Dutch collaborators would be paid 2500 euros ($3,100) to 3,500 euros.

Members of the Dutch Caribbean community were used so they could be used as look-alikes for Nigerians’ real partners, who would be brought into Britain after the “wedding” to make the swap complete, prosecution service spokesman Wim de Bruin told AFP.

Called Operation Dutch Conclusion, the two-year investigation involved Dutch and British law and border security agencies and continental policing agency Europol.

Dutch popular daily De Telegraaf reported Friday that British law enforcement officers had made arrests at fake “weddings” with bride and groom on the verge of exchanging vows.

“We have seen wedding dresses with the price tag still on them being used by three ‘brides’ in one day, swapping the dress just outside the church,” the paper quoted an officer only identified as Michel.

Some 81 people have been arrested over the last two years, De Bruin said, mainly in Britain, of whom 66 have already been sentenced to between a few months and six years on human trafficking charges.

Those arrested in the Netherlands also face human trafficking charges, the statement added.


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Hmmmm...my people are in the new again! Bad news is now part of me jst because i'm a nigerian. sha, I nogo drink HYPO bleach cos i stil get hope.

Nigerians never fail to amaze other nigerians!

This isn't really new sha.... D process has been on since ages!

na wa 4 9ja o! E go beta my pple!

This business has been going on for years now they abuse the deal CHEI ! they should have protect the business doing it slowly by slowly atleast white man na mugu shaa

Na wa oooOooo

TO those who are waiting to castigate Nigeria and Nigerians; other nationals are guilty of this same crime.

dats naija for u (NAIJA NINJA)

naija only if things are what they were supposed to be...

nawaooo nothing nigerian no go do, God help us.

Choi myy people no dey tire

these are some of the reasons marriage is no longer considered a respected institution by nigerians.

effects of globalization, travelling overseas, and just general disenchantment with the traditional norms.

My last hope of leaving 9ja good is gone. Tell me it was a lie.

I see creativity here, not scam!

For every busted Fake Wedding Scam, 2,000 more are thriving. While the Dutch police is basking in their three minutes of glory. my Naija boys are arranging more clients by the second. Entrepreneurship at it's best

While we have this kind of strategy management in negative way now.why not n building of weapons and the likes that will benefit

so far sey gold circle na still N50, Me no go send

holly-pagan:
This business has been going on for years now they abuse the deal CHEI ! they should have protect the business doing it slowly by slowly atleast white man na mugu shaa

.My brodaaa! So tay then con de change wedding gan with price tag still on it three times for oyinbo present, maybe then haya the gan self.

Why use the same wedding gown with price tag for three weddings the same day and the same church,those guys think they were smarter than the whitemen but ended up plunging themselves into a pot of burning oil.
Turkish people does arranged marriages and they do it perfectly well without hitches to alert security agencies,those idio:ts have killed business for more brilliant Nigerians who could have done a far better job with the marriage thing.

Great news .... I hope more are caught and locked up or deported!

A blow 2 our national image.

Absolutely... i hope this stops boko haram too.... smh

Table Leg :
Great news .... I hope more are caught and locked up or deported!

deported to come and become a thief here in naija abi?

eX-Dave:
deported to come and become a thief here in naija abi?

Who cares?!
They can do whatever they want ... It is their country!

eX-Dave:
deported to come and become a thief here in naija abi?

maybe u don try visa u no get abeg chill

eX-Dave:
deported to come and become a thief here in naija abi?

maybe u don try visa u no get u dey vex abeg chill

This na old news na.... why is it making head line again?

Fear whiteman police, investigation took 2yrs..

Not a new news. Give them papers after a certain number og years and you will kill the crime entrely

Omo 9ja ni mi,Ayami ooja (I copy Dagrin).

For negative news,we always dey carry 1st,make olympics come now,last,we no dey see carry.

Our Yoruba brothers